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John Locke: Island Warrior, Pot Connoisseur

October 18, 2006 /

If you’ve been wondering what the future held for those poor saps who got stuck in the hatch mid-explosion, tonight’s episode shed a little more light on the subject; at least for one of our survivors. If anyone was going to make it out of that season finale alive, we all knew it would be Locke. Apart from the Terrific Trio (Jack, Kate and Sawyer), Locke is perhaps the next most popular character – and one that the writers all seem to love, as well – so it wasn’t very surprising to see him alive and well. What was surprising, however, was his sudden inability to talk. Of course, that didn’t last very long.

Upon meditating in some sort of spirit tent, Locke sees a vision of a long-haired Boone (do skin cells continue to grow, even when you’re just a spirit?), who guides him to his next mission: save someone on the island. After guessing just about everyone but the right person, Locke finally figures out that it’s Eko who needs his assistance. Apparently snatched by another polar bear wandering the island, Eko is pretty beat up when Locke and Charlie arrive, but they get him back to the beach in one piece.

Meanwhile, Locke’s flashback divulged a couple interesting facts. Like how he was living off-the-grid growing weed with a couple of friends, and how a hitchhiker that he picked up one day actually turned out to be an undercover cop. He let the kid go, despite promising his fellow “botanists” that he would take care of it, and I’m starting to think that the repercussions of that decision might have something to with him being limited to getting around in a wheelchair. It’s just a thought.

In other goings on, Hurley’s finally returned (running into Locke and Charlie, and a naked Desmond along the way) to deliver the bad news about Jack, Kate and Sawyer. At one point, one of the red shirts even questioned as to who “they” (the Others”) were, as if he’s not savvy to what’s been going on for the past two months? Uh, dude, they’re the bad guys, remember?

Anyways, what was particularly interesting was a conversation that Hurley and Desmond had while returning to camp. After Desmond mentions a great speech that Locke gave about saving the Jack and Co. from the Others, Hurley corrects him by saying that Locke is out to save Eko, kill some bears, and that’s it. Confused, the two continue their journey, while Hurley speculates the effects that the hatch explosion might have had on Desmond. Several moments later, Locke gives that exact speech to the other survivors on the island. Hurley knows this isn’t coincidence, and while Desmond might not exactly turn in to the Incredible Hulk any time soon, there’s definitely something wrong with him. I think it’s the writers trying to make up for the fact that NBC’s “Heroes” has outdone them at their own game – what do you think it is?

External TV, Lost, TV, TV Dramas

Occultic He-Man!

October 17, 2006 /

Or, “They Sold Their Souls for Crappy Toys.” The following evangelical blast from the good old ’80s features a couple dudes rambling on about the “occultic” nature of He-Man and the rest of The Masters of the Universe. God, can you imagine the toys the kids of these people got to play with? Neither can I. Paranoia sure is fun, though.

External Entertainment, TV

Heroes, Week 4: When Peter Met Mohinder

October 16, 2006 /

…and Nathan Met Niki…and Peter Met Hiro…and…well, you get the idea. Lots of meetings going on.

So Matt wakes up on an examining table, looking into the eyes of Claire’s dad, who assures Matt that they’re just testing him and that he just needs to relax. Of course, he’s lying, so it’s uncertain as to whether we can trust his claim that he’s not FBI or CIA. He assures Cop Boy that he’s very special…just as special as his buddy, who then proceeds to not only wipe out Matt’s memories but also apparently prevent him from appearing at any other point during the episode.

Claire manages to put herself back together – so to speak – after waking up on the autopsy table and more or less makes it home in one piece. She manages to endure a few stern comments from her father, along with a grilling from her buddy about the events of the previous evening, before discovering that the football player who raped her has done it to other girls. She quickly extracts her harsh revenge on him…not that he doesn’t deserve punishment, but, damn, that kind of crash could kill a guy!

Mohinder tries to warn Nathan about a possible attempt on his life, but he doesn’t buy it, saying, “Can you be more specific? 12 percent of the populace doesn’t approve of me.” Nathan then proceeds to go yell at Peter, certain that he’s the one who told Mohinder where to find him…and, although he didn’t, it leads Peter to go hunt down Mohinder. After bitching at Peter, Nathan then promptly flies off to Las Vegas where…what’s this?…he meets up with Niki. And, boy, does he meet up with Niki; she’s been asked to roger him roundly in order to even things up with Mr. Linderman. As it happens, though, she really digs him…and although she begs off at first, her better (?) half thinks better of it. Then again, you work up a sexual appetite after kicking a guy’s ass. By the way, there are a lot of great lines in the episode, but the best has to be, “Niki’s not here right now.”

It’s weird that, when Peter meets Mohinder, for someone whose dad has done nothing but go on about the untapped human potential, Mohinder’s pretty damned skeptical of Peter’s claims. Still, he listens…and, during a subway ride together, Mohinder starts to warm up to Peter. Meanwhile, Isaac and his woman have a decidedly tense one-on-one about his powers and her evening with Peter…but, for the first time, Isaac’s finally stopped whining and started taking control of his abilities. “I’m going to save the world,” he says to himself…and you damned well believe him, particularly after he discovers how to access his future visions without shooting heroin. When he sees and subsequently paints Claire, it’s the second time in the episode one of the other heroes has referenced her in some capacity – Matt asks “who’s Claire” immediately before getting his memories wiped by Claire’s dad’s buddy. Not that it’s any secret that Claire is clearly the tie that binds the heroes together; the “coming next week” segments have been spoiling that for the past few weeks. Why ruin it for us, you bastards?!?

The moment when Hiro looks skyward and offers a look of apology right before he stops time and allows Ando to win is brilliant…not quite as brilliant as Ando preying on Hiro’s knowledge of super-hero mythos to convince him to continue cheating, but almost on par with the expression on the face of Ando’s cowboy-hat-sporting poker opponent when he watches his full house turn into junk before his eyes. Nice “Rain Man” moment when the pair of them come down the escalator wearing matching grey suits…right before they get thrown out of the casino and into the path of the now very angry cowboy-hat-sporting poker opponent. I can only presume the scene of Ando shitting himself will appear on the “Heroes: Season 1” DVD set as a special feature…

So the two big mysteries at the episode are…

1) Why did Claire’s dad only want one member of the post-coital couple in Vegas?
2) From how far in the future did Hiro come to speak to Peter? Because there ain’t no trace of an accent in his English…

Did I mention how much I love this show…?

External TV, Heroes, TV, TV Dramas

“Heroes”: 3 questions, 3 answers

October 16, 2006 /

Due to the phenomenal success of “Heroes,” NBC kindly put together a teleconference with the show’s creator, Tim Kring, and two of the shows stars; their names are Ali Larter and Santiago Cabrera, but you may know them better as Stripper with the Crazy Reflection and Artist Who’s The New Nostradamus. It was a packed call, so we only had the chance to ask one question per person, but here’s what we got out of them…

Bullz-Eye: Ali, in a series that has its fair share of disconcerting moments, yours is definitely the story that’s playing out the most like a horror film.

Ali Larter (“Niki Sanders”): (Laughs)

BE: Given your history with “Final Destination,” did you slip into the role pretty easily…?

AL: You know what? I’m in a bit of fear and distress right now, but if you hold on for just one more episode, we’re gonna get a little romance, you get a little bit of cheekiness in it, and, actually, what’s amazing about this writing is that it really pushes me and makes me kind of find all different tones within our show, so…you’re getting there. That’s just the first couple of episodes. It definitely opens up to a whole new world.

BE: Oh, please let the romance be with Hiro’s buddy…

AL: (Cheekily) Maybeeeeeee…!

BE: Santiago, I’ve been blogging about the show for our site, and I have to wonder: if you had the ability to see the future, do you think maybe you’d spend maybe a little more time trying to change the events you were seeing and less, uh, kind of…whining about it?

Santiago Cabrera (“Isaac Mendez”): Well, I think it’s, uh…I think it depends whether you’re in control of it or not. I think that’s the interesting thing about the surprises that this character can have. It’s that, at the moment, he’s not conscious of what he’s doing, so it’s a pretty freaky thing, and there’s maybe that nature of, “Am I evil, is this coming from inside of me?” Or, “Why is this all happening?” But obviously, if you’re in control of it and you can put it to good use, you can do what you want with it, and that’s a different story. And I think that’s the great thing about this show: that it starts from the beginning of everyone discovering these things for the first time, and, obviously, it’ll be a process of going through each character, and it’ll take people to different places.

BE: And Tim, when I did our fall preview, I opened my comments about “Heroes” by observing, “Whoever had ‘21 years’ in the pool on when NBC would finally decide TV critics had forgotten about ‘Misfits of Science,’ you’re a winner.”

Tim Kring (creator): (Laughs)

BE: And then I proceeded to laugh out loud when I saw on your IMDB entry that you were actually a writer for that show.

TK: Oh, is that right? So that was just a lucky guess…?

BE: It was. Have you been hoarding ideas for 21 years?

TK: Actually, “Misfits of Science” is so long ago that I barely – literally – barely cannot remember what I wrote. But, y’know, I’ve had a long and varied career, so when you look back at it, there’ve been many various genres that I’ve been involved in.

BE: So it hasn’t been haunting you ever since?

TK: No, not really; I’ve just been going where the road takes me. As a writer, if you look back at your career, it’s hard to make any sense of it. It just goes where it wants to go.

External Entertainment, External TV, Heroes, Interviews, TV, TV Dramas

Battlestar Galactica: “Exodus, Part 1”

October 14, 2006 /

Boy, that Ronald Moore is a sly motherf’er. Last episode ended with Callie running through the brush and gunfire in the background. This week, the show opens with the same scene and then jumps back an hour in time to show how Chief caught wind of the execution and hatched a plan to free the prisoners. I like the misdirection, but technically, Callie wasn’t running when the gunfire started. Chief ran out and knocked her to the ground before the resistance started shooting. Also, she wasn’t really in the brush…All right, I’ll stop nitpicking, but it would be a lot easier if there weren’t nits to pick.

I wasn’t sure what Boomer was going to do when she was confronted with the news that her baby (Hera) is still alive. For now, she’s still a colonial officer, but the decision to take Hera away from her mother might come back to bite the humans in the proverbial ass. Anyway, she retrieved the launch keys for the colonial ships so the table is set for a prison break…wait, that’s another show.

Is it just me, or is Doral (the younger, male Cylon) becoming the most annoying character on the show? As Brother Cavil was relating the story of the rescue, and how the humans left him there to die, Doral had this smarmy comment to say to Baltar: “Aren’t you a noble race.” Excuse me, but weren’t you about to execute a group of prisoners? Then he has the audacity to say, “Worse comes to worst, we can just nuke the city and be done with it.” Noble, indeed.

Last week, I said that Ellen wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She stole the map of the resistance rendezvous with the Galactica crew and gave it to the Cylons. She should have rewritten the map (although Tigh would have probably recognized her handwriting), but instead she just handed it over. When Starbuck’s boyfriend/husband discovered the map on one of the skinjobs, the betrayal led back to her. Did you see the look in Tigh’s one good eye when he learned the news? Ellen is in some serious trouble.

The episode ended with Admiral Adama learning that Boomer successfully retrieved the launch keys, and with the fleet readying for the rescue. By the way, how cool is it when Adama punches his desk?

“Exodus, Part 2” should be a good one.

Battlestar Galactica, External TV, TV, TV Action, TV Dramas

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